Today I received an email from Media Temple that there was an "impending change to the passwords for all database users on your (gs) Grid Service. Unfortunately there has seems to have been a brute-froce hack attempt on Media Temple servers. Nonetheless, the website hosting company is not only changing the passwords for it's customer's databases automaticcaly, they are also automatically updating the database configurations in most popular CMS applications (such as Joomla, Drupal & WordPress)

As owner of a few databases (and responsible for many more at matrixx), this is why I recommend media temple. Now if I could get everyone to update their site to "most major CMS applications" …

We will send you an additional email notification 24-hours prior to the actual change.

VERY IMPORTANT:

Please do not change your database user passwords back to their former value(s). Returning database passwords back to previous versions may allow malicious parties to gain future access to one or more of your databases. If you do choose to change one or more database passwords back, you will be notified by (mt) Media Temple and your site may be temporarily suspended.

In an attempt to make this a more seamless process, (mt) Engineers have developed custom scripts that automatically find and update the database configuration files used by most major CMS applications (if installed using standard methods). The scripts were designed to auto-update the following:

In other words: If you are using one of those applications, not only will we be automatically updating your database user passwords, we will also update your CMS/application configuration to include the new passwords. If you happen to use other database-oriented applications, the following article contains an FAQ regarding this email notification and also discusses how to update your database configuration files and/or reset database passwords: http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/1807/

We understand that changing database passwords is not a preferred solution, but we have exhausted all other routes to try to avoid this specific action. Once the password change has been completed, you will be notified via email and our internal system will automatically open a new Support Request for your account within the AccountCenter. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at any time, and we thank you for your patience and understanding regarding this matter.

Today I received an email from Media Temple that there was an "impending change to the passwords for all database users on your (gs) Grid Service. Unfortunately there has seems to have been a brute-froce hack attempt on Media Temple servers. Nonetheless, the website hosting company is not only changing the passwords for it's customer's databases automaticcaly, they are also automatically updating the database configurations in most popular CMS applications (such as Joomla, Drupal & WordPress)

As owner of a few databases (and responsible for many more at matrixx), this is why I recommend media temple. Now if I could get everyone to update their site to "most major CMS applications" …

We will send you an additional email notification 24-hours prior to the actual change.

VERY IMPORTANT:

Please do not change your database user passwords back to their former value(s). Returning database passwords back to previous versions may allow malicious parties to gain future access to one or more of your databases. If you do choose to change one or more database passwords back, you will be notified by (mt) Media Temple and your site may be temporarily suspended.

In an attempt to make this a more seamless process, (mt) Engineers have developed custom scripts that automatically find and update the database configuration files used by most major CMS applications (if installed using standard methods). The scripts were designed to auto-update the following:

In other words: If you are using one of those applications, not only will we be automatically updating your database user passwords, we will also update your CMS/application configuration to include the new passwords. If you happen to use other database-oriented applications, the following article contains an FAQ regarding this email notification and also discusses how to update your database configuration files and/or reset database passwords: http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/1807/

We understand that changing database passwords is not a preferred solution, but we have exhausted all other routes to try to avoid this specific action. Once the password change has been completed, you will be notified via email and our internal system will automatically open a new Support Request for your account within the AccountCenter. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at any time, and we thank you for your patience and understanding regarding this matter.

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